2022 - Rocking the Web Bloat: Modern Gopher, Gemini and the Small Internet

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The web is a mess, bloated with data-gathering trackers, predatory UX, massive resource loads, and it is absorbing everything it touches. The Small Internet is a counter-cultural movement to wrangle things back under control via minimalism, hands-on participation, and good old fashioned conversation. At its heart are technologies like the venerable Gopher protocol or the new Gemini protocol offering a refuge and a place to dream of a better future.
Join me and be reintroduced to Gopher in 2021 and learn what this old friend has to offer us in a world full of web services and advertising bombardment. We will also explore the new Gemini protocol and how it differs from Gopher and HTTP.
We will explore the protocols themselves, their history, and what the modern ecosystems are like. I will briefly review the technical details of implementing servers or clients of your own, and how to author content as a user. Discussion will cover limitations, grey-areas, and trade-offs in exchange for speed and simplicity.
Through these alternative protocols we'll see the small internet in action.
James Tomasino
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[@nnov_tech_chan7891]

This idea actually makes sense for me. I want internet to be small and fast for those who need it.

[@jtgdyt2]

It was fun in the old days. I wish there was more gopher acceptance.

[@AllyFaye-tl6wm]

A comment to add to this talk: WAIS is no longer a thing (at least as far as I was able to find) and as of June 2023 The Library of Congress' z39.50 public catalog access is being shrunk to only between computers at the actual site. Gopher/Gemini is a great place to be though. Beats the heck out of the bloated side of the www.

[@alphago9397]

Super informative; loved it .. have a ton of things to research from this video. My only issue was his usage of the term "surveillance capitalism"; seemed like a bit of a misnomer to me. I think a more accurate term to describe what he was referring to would be "globalism."

[@basecamp5319]

Curated is millennial speak for gatekeeper.

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

Gatekeeping is a good thing lol.

[@jtgdyt2]

Or not collecting a bunch of trash

[@notexactlysiev]

I mean, yeah, by definition

[@weedeater64]

I'm looking, and failing to find anything related to finger networks. I am very interested in this.
Might you have a clue for the clueless?

[@hedy3932]

are you talking about the finger:// protocol?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)